Premier Li expressed these views during the meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in NY, where both leaders were attending the 71st UN General Assembly session.
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Gambhir reminded the United Nations that the trail of the most “horrifying” and “dastardly terror attack” of 9/11 led all the way to Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been hiding for years and was killed by U.S. forces.
On Sharif’s mention of Burhan Wani, Akbar responded: “We heard the glorification of a terrorist”.
“Pak PM Sharif at #UNGA glorifies Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani in UN’s highest forum. This is self incrimination by the Pakistan Prime Minister”, Akbar said.
Claiming that Pakistan “neither wants, nor is engaged in an arms race with India”, Sharif said, “We have consistently urged the conclusion of bilateral arms control and disarmament measures between Pakistan and India to prevent conflict and avoid wasteful military expenditures”.
“The only occupation in Jammu and Kashmir, which is a part of India, is the occupation of a part of Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistan’s occupation Army. The world also knows that Pakistan has been indulged in ethnic cleansing of its own people”.
Pakistan had assured under the joint statement – signed between the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf – that it will not permit any territory under its control to be used to support terrorism in any manner.
Sharif also demanded an independent inquiry into the “extra-judicial killings” and a United Nations fact finding mission to investigate alleged brutalities perpetrated by the Indian forces, “so that those guilty of these atrocities are punished”.
Premier said, “India posed unacceptable preconditions to engage in dialogue”.
India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank, in 1960.
Aziz, on the sidelines of 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in NY, separately met with the foreign minsters – Fumio Kishida of Japan, Sebastian Kurz of Austria and Didier Burkhalter of Switzerland, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said.
Indian Foreign Ministry officials say they offered to provide evidence for a probe by Islamabad into the incident and asked Pakistan to live up to its commitment to refrain from supporting and sponsoring terrorism against India.
Meanwhile, the National investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the terror attack in Uri Sector of Jammu and Kashmir, will be seeking the help of the Army, Intelligence Bureau and RAW to get identities of the terrorists verified. 19 infiltration attempts stopped at LoC this year. He said that Pakistan and China were “iron brothers”.
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Taking a dig at Pakistan, Gambhir said, “We’ve heard Pakistan whose nuclear proliferation record is marked by deceit, talking about restraint, renunciation and peace”.
